It can be said that in a democracy‚ unity among the many cannot exist without compromise. Following the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War in 1776‚ the Articles of Confederation (the “Articles”) were written to allay fears about‚ and promote liberty‚ for its citizens‚ by legitimizing the rights of individual states. However‚ the Articles provided such restrictive powers for the underfunded national government to counteract deficiencies‚ that the union was at risk of collapse. A series of
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New Jersey Plan. Each of these had advantages and disadvantages for each of the sides. Overall‚ the Virginia Plan favored the larger states‚ while the New Jersey Plan favored the small states. Eventually both sides decided on the Great Compromise. The Great Compromise solved the problem of representation because all states were able to receive equal power in congress. This enabled larger states in the House to have power over taxes and spending‚ while smaller states in the Senate could check the house’s
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The way the Southerners reacted to the Wilmot Proviso was that they were mad because the government was taking what Southerners thought was their property. 3. What was Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850? Stephen A. Douglas’s role in passing the compromise of 1850 was he was trying to make it a law. The Crisis Deepens 4. How did the northerners react to the fugitive slave act? The way that the northerners reacted to the fugitive slave act was that they thought
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major conflicts over slavery within the new territories. These conflicts would continue up until The Missouri Compromise of 1820‚ which would temporarily solve these issues. On top of highlighting issues regarding slavery‚ this expansion would also ultimately contribute to the economic crisis of 1819‚ which was the first major economic downfall in Americas history. The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This law also prohibited slavery
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3/5 Clause a compromise? The 3/5 Clause was a compromise because it gave slave states the right to count slaves as three-fifths of a person in order to pad their representation in the House but denied any right of citizenship to those slaves. States’ leaders chose to compromise rather than tear the US apart. 4. Why did the balance of free and slave states have to be maintained? North and south both feared that the other would overpower it in Congress. 5. How does the Compromise of 1820 accomplish
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documents‚ it can be incongruous. The Constitution can be interpreted in many different ways‚ which leads to sectional discord and tension. For many reasons‚ the South did not like what the constitution said. There were many conflictions with the compromise of 1850‚ map shown in (Document A) and the fugitive slave act. Certain Northerners were against slavery and the fugitive slave act that they even posted warnings for the slaves. (Document C). This fugitive slave act also helped drive the tension
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was a controversial legislation that opened Kansas and Nebraska to white settlement‚ repealed the Compromise of 1850‚ and led opponents to form the Republican party. This piece of legislation was introduced in Congress that revived the issues of the expansion of slavery. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of measures passed by Congress to resolve sectional tensions. Congress admitted California to the Union as a free state. And organize the territories of New Mexico
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Caroline Simon Liz Fleischer Analyze the effectiveness of political compromise in reducing sectional tensions in the period 1820-1861. I. Introduction 1. Background Information a. sectional tensions had been causing disjunction between the North and the South ever since the the country’s founding b. political compromises were supposed to fix the issues but usually only led to temporary resolving of the problems c. slavery was the cause of the sectional tensions d. while cotton was king
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The Great Divide The issue of slavery was discussed in many ways. People talked about the morality of the institution (or lack thereof)‚ the economics of slavery‚ and the political issues that came about because of it. No matter how it was discussed‚ the North and South could not agree. Northerners thought Southerners were corrupting the soul of America‚ and Southerners thought Northerners were hypocrites. No matter which way they looked at slavery‚ the North and South had two antithetical
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to westward expansion and there was an average number 2 to 6 inhabitants per square mile. The problem was whether or not slavery would be allowed in the new western states discussed in every conversation about the frontier. In 1820‚ the Missouri Compromise (F)
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